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tional similar amount be allotted from P. W. A. and C. W. A. monej^s 

 to be used for restoration and improvement of the lands acquired. 



The committee finally proposed consolidation and coordination of 

 Federal departments and bureaus having authority affecting wild life 

 into a businesslike administration set-up to carry the plan into success- 

 ful execution. 



In addition to this most comprehensive and tremendously 

 important plan of the President's Committee many other important 

 conservation measures are now being considered in Washington. Most 

 of these matters are contained in a message which was adopted and 

 signed by the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Conservation of 

 Wild-life Resources, the Chairman of the President's Committee on 

 Wild-life Restoration, and the representatives of 47 interested organi- 

 zations, at the Senate Committee hearing on January 25, 1934, and 

 presented to the President by a select committee the following day. 



This message first stressed the enthusiastic apjn'eciation and the 

 hearty cooperation pledged by these 47 units including sportsmen, 

 nature lovers and farmers' organizations, representatives of the 

 Audubon Societies, and sportsmen's magazines, and conservation com- 

 missioners to the restoration plan of the President's Committee, the 

 essential proposals of which were included in the text of the message. 



The conference unanimously approved the following measures and 

 recommendations which were also included in the message presented to 

 President Roosevelt. 



1. The duck stamp bill prepared by the Special Senate Committee on the 

 Conservation of Wild-life Resources, Senate Bill 1658 and House Bill 5632. 



2. Senator Joseph T.- Robinson's wild-life refuge bill, No. 2277: A bill to 

 establish fish and game sanctuaries in the National forests and on other public lands, 

 approved by the Senate committee and now on the Senate Calendar. 



3. The coordination bill, introduced by the Senate committee, to coordinate 

 conservation activities of the several Federal departments, which passed the Senate 

 and was approved by the House committee in the last session. 



4. Your stimulating order setting aside the sum of $25,000,000 for the with- 

 drawal of submarginal lands from commercial agriculture which suggests the use of 

 certain portion of these lands for migratory waterfowl and upland game. 



5. That appropriations should be made as authorized under the Norbeck- 

 Andresen bill and the policy established therein for a period of 10 years (5 years 

 have already gone) should be renewed. 



6. The treaty with Canada established our duty to conserve migratory birds 

 along their annual flight lanes within our country. When these birds reach the 

 Mexican border, or the Gulf of Mexico, many of them cross into the domain of our 

 sister republics to the south, particularly Mexico. We recommend that negotiations 

 be entered into to bring about a treaty with Mexico similar in character to that 

 with Canada. 



This delegation received an enthusiastic reception from the Chief 

 Executive, who commented with pleasure upon the novelty of its 

 unanimity of opinion, an unprecedented occurrence in similar gather- 

 ings. Executive Officer John L. Farley and Nathan Moran, our mem- 

 ber of the Federal Migratory Bird Advisory Board, Avere members of 

 this delegation, having gone to Washington to represent California at 

 the Senate committee hearings. 



Subsequent to this meeting, there was formed in the House a Com- 

 mittee on the Conservation of Wild-life Resources that will operate in 

 that body in the same manner in which the Senate committee of similar 

 title functions. This committee is composed of 14 members. Repre- 



